Fla. to hold special session to redrawn voting map

Legislative leaders made it official on Monday that the session begins Thursday at noon.

Senate President Don Gaetz says legislators will draw a new map that fixes two districts that a judge declared invalid. One district stretches from Jacksonville to Orlando, while the other is in central Florida.

Gaetz says in a statement that the new congressional map should have "minimal impact" on districts outside those areas.

A Florida circuit judge in July declared the state's current congressional map illegal because two districts have been drawn to benefit Republicans in violation of anti-gerrymandering laws.

Judge Terry Lewis last week ordered legislators to draw up a replacement map by Aug. 15